21 June 1985
- Artist:
- Type: Sculpture
- Medium: Granite
- Production Date: 1985
- Description: The sculptor says ‘I am trying to blend my ideas into the character of this granite. A square block is brutally cut out, then the inside piece is split into two pieces and both pieces are carved and polished on opposite sides to create the impression they are tilted when replaced in their original position. The composition reminds the viewer that this sculpture was once one piece of stone, but now has transformed facets.‘
Hironori Katagiri is on record as saying that main theme for this sculpture was memory, and that its concept was finding
a form for memory, impelling him to cut into the core. Thus he opened up the form, removed the centre, polished certain faces of it, and then re-integrated it, recombining the edited mass with the aid of a steel pipe.
He introduced the idea of mobility in the core by not re-setting it on absolutely straight lines. Slim channels of void admit light to permeate and afford peep-hole views of the landscape behind. The curious passages of detail at the top right of the granite are characteristic of even otherwise smoothly finished sculptures by Katagiri, and research has shown that they bear a childhood memory for the sculptor. As the son of the owner of a fishing fleet, the young Katagiri used to play on gigantic rocky cliffs of the Karakuwa peninsula, and would have needed to find fingertip holds like those to save himself from falling.
This is the first piece he made with Aberdeen granite at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden, Aberdeenshire. It was selected for the Scottish Sculpture Open 4 at the Kildrummy Castle in 1985 and toured to the Crammond Sculpture Park in Edinburgh before being moved to the University of Stirling. - Acquisition Note: Purchase supported by Art Collection Fund.
- Digital Copy:A digital copy exists.
- Location: Sculpture Trail
- Related Material: AC/AF/K/1
- Accession Number: 2005.4
- Contact: University of Stirling Art Collection
